Christopher Dodd actually said...

"I want to commend you and the Ranking Member for holding this hearing to examine TARP."

"I appreciate the witnesses appearing today and look forward to hearing you."

"None of us wants to trivialize this situation, and so the issue of executive compensation is not to trivialize it all."

"What we are trying to do here, we would like to make it better tomorrow, but if we can stop making it worse tomorrow, that is a major achievement at this point."